Wednesday food for Thought–John Stott on God’s Wrath

God’s wrath against sin does not mean … that he is likely to fly off the handle at the most trivial provocation, still less that he loses his temper for no apparent reason at all. For there is nothing capricious or arbitrary about the holy God. Nor is he ever irascible,malicious, spiteful or vindictive. His anger is neither mysterious nor irrational. It is never unpredictable but always predictable, because it is provoked by evil and by evil alone.

–John R W Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downer’s Grove, InterVarsity Press, 2006), p.173

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